In which ratherastory is difficult and nit-picky

[ratherastory]

Everyone has their pet peeves, right? I have many.

The latest one to surface, and it's a recurring problem, but it's been twice in a couple of days now, and I'm officially peeved.

Vampires.

Vampires in pre-series stories.

Remember "Dead Man's Blood?" The boys and John are convinced vampires don't exist/are extinct right up until first season.

Even well-written stories get on my nerves, unless they're explicitly stated to be AU.

It's marring my enjoyment of those fics, which is really too bad. I need to learn to overlook it when they're well-written, I guess. But still. Gnarr.

Comments

[cece-away.livejournal.com]

It's funny. They didn't know about Rugaros either. What gets me is when I run across a Weechester story and the boys have cell phones or laptops. Um? Maybe after 96 if John could have afforded those $1000 monsters and wanted to be tied down to the limited coverage that would have followed him around in his name from state to state.

Sorry, that's just my pet peeve.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Right. Lord above.

The cell phone thing is at least canon: Dean has a cell phone of his own when he's around 17, according to "After School Special." No indication that Sam has one, though.

[katwoman76.livejournal.com]

I think that just shows that the writer is one of the young ones, who doesn't really remember, that "everyone has a cellphone" is a pretty new concept.
For them it's probably normal to have these as little kids already and the idea that it wasn't always like that is something they can't even imagine.
But yes, that's not something that would make sense until the time where Sam was a teenager and Dean almost out of school.

[cece-away.livejournal.com]

True. My son asked me once to explain exactly how we use to dial "one of those old phones with the circle things on top". It was fun explaining how we had to put our fingers in the circles and move the dial around then watch it rotate back and heaven forbid if we put it in the front number.

[katwoman76.livejournal.com]

Talking about things like that makes me feel so old. :(

I admit, that for me it sometimes gets even more confusing.
Because thinking back to the time before I was a teenager, I sometimes can't really say, if certain things ...like not every household having a phone (landline I mean, not cellphone)...were that way, because it just wasn't the time for these things yet (technology moves fast) or if it was only this way for us - behind the iron curtain.
Was it an East Germany special or just an 80's thing, you know.

[cece-away.livejournal.com]

Right. And everything is subjective to personal memory. It's like how old was I when that came out?

My kids have ipods and phones that are computers in the palm of their hands, but will they remember how old they were when they had those for only a few years when the hologram computers come out hovering in the air for them?